Welcome to Course for PhD supervisors – August 2021 (online)
Description:
Together with the PhD School
at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences at SDU, the Doctoral School of
Social Sciences offers a 2-day course for PhD supervisors. The collaboration
ensures discussions among a larger group of social science peers. The course is
targeted both new supervisors and experienced supervisors. The course is a
process course that takes as its starting point the doctoral supervisors’
understandings of their role and place in the organization through establishing.
1. What forms of pedagogy are embedded in different supervisor and student roles
2. An understanding of how the supervisor role evolves over time
3. An awareness of organisational and environmental dimensions that influence doctoral supervision
4.
Practical tools to facilitate and cope with troublesome areas
Organizer: Doctoral School of Social Sciences
Lecturers: Søren S.E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor in supervision and
mentoring in higher education, at the Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus
University. Same place, he is the Co-Director of the research centre ‘Centre
for Higher Education Futures’ (CHEF). Bengtsen has designed and taught the
obligatory courses for all new doctoral supervisors and all new doctoral
students at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University for the last 7 years.
Bengtsen is the co-founder of the two national special interest groups
‘Supervision and mentoring in higher education’ and ‘Higher education policy
and practice’ under The Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher
Education (Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk, DUN).Further, Bengsten is the
co-founder and current Chair of the international academic association
‘Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society’. He has published widely
within higher education, doctoral education, educational philosophy, and the
philosophy of higher education. His recent books include Doctoral Supervision.
Organization and Dialogue (Aarhus University Press, 2016), The Thinking
University. A Philosophical Examination of Though and Higher Education
(Co-edited with Ronald Barnett, Springer Publishing, 2018), Knowledge and the
University. Re-claiming Life (co-authored with Ronald Barnett, Routledge, 2019),
and The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education (co-authored with Dely Elliot,
Kay Guccione, and Sofie Kobayashi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
ECTS:
Time: 24 - 25 August 2021
Place: ONLINE
Number of seats: 25
Deadline: 10 August 2021
Program Day 1 - Doctoral supervision and the institutional context kl: 09.00-13.00:
09.00-09.30 - Welcome and presentations
09.30-10.30 - Rules and regulations regarding doctoral supervision
10.30-10.45 - Break
10.45-11.45 - Workshop 1: Doctoral supervision and the institutional context
11.45-12.00 - Break
12.00-13.00 - Workshop 2: Supervisor wellbeing
Program Day 2 - Roles, relations, and responsibilities in doctoral supervision --> NEW start and end time of the course kl: 08.30-11.30:
08.30-10.00 - Workshop 3: Roles and relations in doctoral supervision
10.00-10.15 - Break
10.15-12.15 - Workshop 4: Communication and the supervisory dialogue
12.15-12.30 - Break
12.30-13.00 - Closing reflection: Next steps and what to bring forward
- Teacher: Søren Bech